As someone who has worn glasses his entire life because his vision is crap, I think that even if tech people manage to someday squeeze VR/AR down to the form factor of a pair of regular glasses, they are wildly overestimating how many people want to wear even something resembling a pair of regular glasses. Nobody has ever envied me for wearing glasses. Very few people actually _want_ to wear glasses. People spend big money on contact lenses and LASIK specifically to not have to wear glasses!
The TV manufacturers poured a zillion dollars into creating 3D HDTVs. They succeeded, with just one limitation: you had to wear glasses to watch your shows. That, all by itself, killed the category. Even when they gave the technology away free with the TV, nobody wanted it. Because nobody wanted to wear the glasses.
So I have very little expectation that even a VR/AR set that was the exact same shape and weight as a pair of regular glasses would be something vast masses of people would look forward to wearing all day every day.
Jason Lefkowitz /
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2024-03-16 01:33:39
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